Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of VMWare Virtualization – Delivery Head

Key Responsibilities:

Define Product Vision and Strategy: Develop the vision, strategy, and roadmap for VMware product offerings in alignment with customer needs and overall IT strategy.Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and engage key stakeholders to ensure product success and value. Work closely with senior stakeholders to communicate issues, progress, and resolutions for business critical incidents. Liaison between operations and engineering development teams, aligning on priorities and drive automation deliveries. Compliance Monitoring and Risk Mitigation: Continuously monitor compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies using tools like VMware vRealize Operation. Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure VMware products compliance. Ensure that all systems and processes comply with the latest key controls, reducing the risk of non-compliance.Product Management: Manage and improve existing product offerings throughout their lifecycle, adopting Agile methodologies. Assessing current and future resource needs to ensure that your infrastructure can handle the workload critical banking services.Product Communication: Share regular product updates with all stakeholders in both major and smaller countries. Ensure that all products are updated to supported versions and avoid any product reaching end-of-life. Maintain timely communication regarding CVEs to meet compliance/controls.Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction and leadership to the team, ensuring best practices in VMWare vSphere and vCenter Products, distributed systems, servers and storage. Build strong technical understanding of VMware products and solutions to drive transformation deliverables.Crisis Management: Handle crises situations efficiently, implementing immediate solutions to minimize impact. Represent the team in major incident calls, providing technical expertise and leadership.Process and Automation: Identify opportunities to enhance operational workflows and eliminate inefficiencies. Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual tasks and improve platform scalability. Monitoring and Observability: Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to proactively monitor platform health and prevent potential issues.Continuous Improvement: Regularly review and update processes, systems, and documentation to adapt to changing regulations and standards.System Availability and Performance: Ensure systems are available and performant, adhering to defined SLAs and SLOs.Capacity Planning and Performance Tunning: Plan for future capacity needs based on usage patterns and growth projections. Optimize system performance through tuning and scaling strategies.Patching and Maintenance: Implement and manage patching schedules to keep systems up-to-date and secure

Some careers shine brighter than others.

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC, and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of VMWare Virtualization – Delivery Head

Key Responsibilities:

Define Product Vision and Strategy: Develop the vision, strategy, and roadmap for VMware product offerings in alignment with customer needs and overall IT strategy.Stakeholder Engagement: Identify and engage key stakeholders to ensure product success and value. Work closely with senior stakeholders to communicate issues, progress, and resolutions for business critical incidents. Liaison between operations and engineering development teams, aligning on priorities and drive automation deliveries. Compliance Monitoring and Risk Mitigation: Continuously monitor compliance with regulatory standards and internal policies using tools like VMware vRealize Operation. Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure VMware products compliance. Ensure that all systems and processes comply with the latest key controls, reducing the risk of non-compliance.Product Management: Manage and improve existing product offerings throughout their lifecycle, adopting Agile methodologies. Assessing current and future resource needs to ensure that your infrastructure can handle the workload critical banking services.Product Communication: Share regular product updates with all stakeholders in both major and smaller countries. Ensure that all products are updated to supported versions and avoid any product reaching end-of-life. Maintain timely communication regarding CVEs to meet compliance/controls.Technical Leadership: Provide technical direction and leadership to the team, ensuring best practices in VMWare vSphere and vCenter Products, distributed systems, servers and storage. Build strong technical understanding of VMware products and solutions to drive transformation deliverables.Crisis Management: Handle crises situations efficiently, implementing immediate solutions to minimize impact. Represent the team in major incident calls, providing technical expertise and leadership.Process and Automation: Identify opportunities to enhance operational workflows and eliminate inefficiencies. Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual tasks and improve platform scalability. Monitoring and Observability: Implement robust monitoring and alerting systems to proactively monitor platform health and prevent potential issues.Continuous Improvement: Regularly review and update processes, systems, and documentation to adapt to changing regulations and standards.System Availability and Performance: Ensure systems are available and performant, adhering to defined SLAs and SLOs.Capacity Planning and Performance Tunning: Plan for future capacity needs based on usage patterns and growth projections. Optimize system performance through tuning and scaling strategies.Patching and Maintenance: Implement and manage patching schedules to keep systems up-to-date and secure

Qualifications – External

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).20 Years of total IT experience with large scale IT Infrastructure and 16 year of experience with Distributed Systems Ex: Linux, Windows, High Availability Solutions, Server Hardware and VMware products Extensive experience in managing and maintaining VMware products (vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, vRO, vRLI, vRLCM) within banking / finance domainProven ability to lead and drive engineering deliveries through automation using Ansible or Puppet / vROworkflows in large scale virtualization infrastructureExperience in scripting and automation using Bash / PowerShell / Python, or other scripting languages.Solid background in computer networking, computer security, system administration, network and storage technologies especially VMware platformAbility to work collaboratively in team environment and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholdersExcellent communication, interpersonal, leadership, and problem-solving skills.Proven experience in Compute, Hypervisors, Storage, Windows, Networks, Clusters (HA) and LinuxExperience in managing firmware updates and ensuring compatibility with hardware and software.Proficient in managing the entire lifecycle of hardware and software, from planning and deployment to maintenance and decommissioning.Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure.Domain experience in managing production services with Windows, RedHat and ESXi or Kubernetes.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

www.hsbc.com/careers

HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Issued by – HSBC Software Development India

Qualifications – External

To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).20 Years of total IT experience with large scale IT Infrastructure and 16 year of experience with Distributed Systems Ex: Linux, Windows, High Availability Solutions, Server Hardware and VMware products Extensive experience in managing and maintaining VMware products (vSphere, vCenter, vROPS, vRO, vRLI, vRLCM) within banking / finance domainProven ability to lead and drive engineering deliveries through automation using Ansible or Puppet / vROworkflows in large scale virtualization infrastructureExperience in scripting and automation using Bash / PowerShell / Python, or other scripting languages.Solid background in computer networking, computer security, system administration, network and storage technologies especially VMware platformAbility to work collaboratively in team environment and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholdersExcellent communication, interpersonal, leadership, and problem-solving skills.Proven experience in Compute, Hypervisors, Storage, Windows, Networks, Clusters (HA) and LinuxExperience in managing firmware updates and ensuring compatibility with hardware and software.Proficient in managing the entire lifecycle of hardware and software, from planning and deployment to maintenance and decommissioning.Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure.Domain experience in managing production services with Windows, RedHat and ESXi or Kubernetes.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

www.hsbc.com/careers

HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working, and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Issued by – HSBC Software Development India